Hospitality of the Matrix [electronic resource] : Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristarkhova, I. (Irina)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth (Philosophy).

Hospitality--Miscellanea.

Human reproduction.

Nurturing behavior.

Reproduction.

Sex role.

Birth (Philosophy)--Miscellanea.

Hospitality.

Local Subjects:

Birth (Philosophy).

Hospitality--Miscellanea.

Human reproduction.

Nurturing behavior.

Reproduction.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Other Title:

Hospitality of the Matrix

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question ?Where do we come from?" has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb, incubator) by recasting it in terms of acts of ?matrixial/maternal hospitality" producing space and matter of and for the other. Irina Aristarkhova theorizes such hospitality with the potential to go beyond tolerance in understanding self/other relations. Building on and critically evaluating a wide range of historical and contemporary scholarship, she applies this theoretical framewo

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1) Journeys of the Matrix: In and Out of the Maternal Body; 2) Materializing Hospitality; 3) The Matter of the Matrix in Biomedicine; 4) Mother-Machine and the Hospitality of Nursing; 5) Male Pregnancy, Matrix, and Hospitality; Conclusion: Hosting the Mother; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-231-15928-5

OCLC:

818857936